Tag Archives: Criminal

Former Virginia Beach attorney Philip Leibman has been charged with practicing law the week after his license was revoked by the Virginia State Bar. The criminal charge was returned among indictments from a Virginia Beach grand jury on Monday. A ...

The 4th Circuit vacates a district court order granting habeas relief to a petitioner challenging his civil commitment as a “sexually dangerous” person under the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act, as petitioner did not exhaust his remedies and ...

A man’s motives in sending dirty e-mails to his estranged wife may come in for a second look when the Virginia Court of Appeals rehears the case of Dennis Barson. Over a six-month period, Barson had sent “vulgar, offensive and ...

If one of your colleagues is missing on Tuesday, you might find that he’s in Richmond before a three-justice panel of the Supreme Court of Virginia. For the first time, the Supreme Court has published the list of cases at ...

There was sufficient evidence to convict defendant of petit larceny where a deputy, responding to a store clerk’s 911 call, observed defendant in the aisle of a shoe store remove a tan boot from under his windbreaker; the Court of ...

The Court of Appeals affirms a 21-year-old defendant’s convictions for possession of child pornography for three photos sent to him by cell-phone from his 17-year-old girlfriend, showing her with her breasts exposed in a “sultry pose.” The evidence at trial ...

Although defendant, who was serving a jail sentence on weekends, said he only brought in enough pills for his personal use, to help him sleep and treat his withdrawal from painkillers, there was sufficient evidence to convict defendant of possession ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court orders forfeiture of $11,210 seized from defendant’s vehicle, along with what appeared to be additional illegal substances, after defendant was arrested with crack cocaine during an arranged drug buy with a confidential informant. The U.S. ...

A government agent’s testimony about how heroin can be cut and his projection of the quantity of heroin at issue in this drug conspiracy prosecution could not support the drug quantity claimed by the government, says the 4th Circuit, and ...

A federal jury in Norfolk convicted five men from Somalia today of piracy and several other related accounts stemming from an attack on a U.S. Navy warship that the defendants thought was a merchant vessel. It is believed to be ...